Hello Luxe,
That sounds great! We’d love to help you build the best chat apps. Keep in touch with our team of expert developers and have a smooth development experience with MirrorFly!

Hello Angelina,
To manage push notifications in the background state for your iOS chat application using XMPP, you will need to:

Configure your XMPP server so that it supports push notifications.
Use APNS and register your device for push notifications
Implement the XMPP Extension for Push notifications in your app.
Handle the incoming push notifications.
Reconnect XMPP and fetch new messages when the user opens the app if there are any.

Hello Romuald!
MirrorFly chat SDK comes in 2 pricing models – Monthly pricing and One-time License cost.
If you need our messaging SDK for a monthly recurring fee, MirrorFly offers you 3 different SaaS plans. You can find detailed information on the plans on our pricing page. Otherwise, you can purchase our completely customizable white-label chat solution for a one-time license cost.

Hello Jerald!
Sounds interesting! You can implement a group messaging feature to your Android chat app using firebase using MirrorFly chat SDK. Create your developer account and start with the implementation or contact our support team for assistance.

Hello Jacob,
Yes, Firebase provides the real-time database service that supports data sync between multiple devices, enabling group chat features. Whereas, you can implement cross-platform communication across iOS, web or Android chat apps using Firebase cloud messaging service.

Hello Holo,
That was helpful information indeed. Keep educating!

Hello Steve,
Firebase can scale up to millions of concurrent users while XMPP up to thousands of users. However, the actual numbers vary from one chat app to another, depending on the overall infrastructure.

Hello Hazel,
The chat app technology of Firebase is based on real time database and cloud messaging whereas the technology behind XMPP is the open-stand real time XMPP protocol.

Hello Linda,
Yes, you can use Firebase to build a web chat app with features like user authentication, storage, and chat database management.

Hello Manish,
You can implement voice calls on your real time chat app using XMPP in 5 simple steps:
Establish a network connection
Negotiate the audio codec
Send voice call request
Exchange audio data
End the voice call

Yes Geffi, Yes Firebase is a backend-as-as-service that lets you create your web app backend with features like real-time database and cloud functions. You can also choose to configure the firebase chat server to fit your app requirements.

Hello Holo, it is completely understandable that choosing between firebase vs XMPP can sometimes be daunting. But our expert team can help you with it. Feel free to contact us now and get your queries resolved!

Yes, it is possible to combine Firebase and XMPP to build your real-time chat app. Firebase will help you add features like push notification, authentication and storage while XMPP lets you add chat features that are essential for your messaging app.

XMPP had an inbuilt database is called Mnesia. You can Simply use MongoDB API & Connect to your MongoDB cluster and fetch and send messages.

If you built an app only in Android, Please prefer Firebase. In Android Studio, you will use volley to get any required data from the firebase database. It is very user-friendly and one can easily write, update or run code there.

Can we use Firebase to build a web application?

Is Firebase a good option to build a web app backend?

Does Firebase support group chat and cross-platform chat (web, android, ios)?

I am using XMPP for my Chat application for iOS, but i am not able to mange push notifications in background state using XMPP, how you are managing push notifications in background state, can you give me some idea technically.

well, currently Contus is developing my OVP, and I wanted to start conceptualizing on the mobile APP aspect of it, and I want to use Contus Fly as the base engine and start adding video streaming to it

How can we connect a new Erlang XMPP server with an Android and iOS mobile chat application?

How to implement a voice call using XMPP?

The backend resources used to build a chat application using Firebase is JavaScript, Node.js and XMPP use Erlang, Ejabberd.

Yes, but feels unnecessary, unless your app needs some functionality that are found separately (as in xmpp has one but lacks another available in Firebase, while firebase lacks something xmpp has). I struggle to figure out what that would be though. XMPP is very versatile

Check the firebase pricing site for concurrent users allowed per tier (there are pricing tiers, but last time I checked, free tier had 100 concurrent, but that was like a year ago)

With XMPP it depends on the hardware its running on (number of servers, RAM of servers)

In Firebase and XMPP, how many concurrent users will support?

Compared to Firebase and XMPP which is the faster to sending the messaging via chat application

Is it possible to combine both Firebase and XMPP to build a real-time chat app?

Can I make video/voice calling app using Firebase?

Hello Jabus,

Yes, it’s possible to add extra features in the chat application while using XMPP.

Hi Nate,

Of course, you can create 1-1 chat app using Firebase. It will support on both Android & iOS.